Comments on: Republicans Lose Party Identification in Texas http://lubbockleft.com/2009/01/30/republicans-lose-party-identification-in-texas/ A strong progressive voice in Lubbock, TX Mon, 21 May 2012 18:45:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: John http://lubbockleft.com/2009/01/30/republicans-lose-party-identification-in-texas/#comment-9595 John Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:47:15 +0000 http://lubbockleft.com/2009/01/30/republicans-lose-party-identification-in-texas/#comment-9595 One of the things that strikes me about this trend is that while it's true that voters who identify themselves as Republicans have decreased by 11.4%, the graph shows an increase in voters who identify themselves as Democrats of only 3.8%. The real story here is that the number of respondents who identify themselves with neither the Republicans nor the Democrats has almost doubled, from 8% in 2002 to 15.6% in 2008. How many of those do you think are actually just conservatives that don't want to be associated with Bush? One of the things that strikes me about this trend is that while it’s true that voters who identify themselves as Republicans have decreased by 11.4%, the graph shows an increase in voters who identify themselves as Democrats of only 3.8%. The real story here is that the number of respondents who identify themselves with neither the Republicans nor the Democrats has almost doubled, from 8% in 2002 to 15.6% in 2008.

How many of those do you think are actually just conservatives that don’t want to be associated with Bush?

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